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In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students share how their summer internship experiences have influenced their careers in science. Hear more about what …

The DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to … the largest class of fungi, by lifestyles. The machine “learned” to identify data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including …

Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative … The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with little or no …

… to summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … a native, shrubby grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. Despite the low …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team … Neurospora crassa, and to identify and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials …

… for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. While CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is the leading tool …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy …

… the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, expressing both male …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Maximizing soybean yield is critical to energy independence in the …